Restoring land in the Hill Country is no easy task. In many places, there’s a scarcity of topsoil and an excess of native and exotic, non-native deer species impacting the vegetation. There are also the feral hogs, searing droughts, destructive floods, and the occasional, show-stopping ice storm. For the Armbrusts, restoration has been an evolution.

Read more from HCA’s Land Program Director Daniel Oppenheimer in Rock & Vine Magazine here.